skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have held Zynga throughout the year. The extent of leadership fail here is unprecedented. n number of remediation tactics should have taken hold early to prevent where we are now. Here is a copy of my e-mail to Pincus (still gone unanswered):

"Mark -

Can we have a man-to-man? Seriously, please explain to me, a small shareholder in Zynga, exactly what the fuck you have been doing with my investment? Clearly, the answer is not building value in any meaningful way. Any third year entrepreneur will have trouble seeing your performance this year amounting to anything other than a collected check, a leveraged office, a leased plane ($3K a wet flight hour?!? What is that a fucking citation X?!?) and an overpaid security team. If the plan is to ride this thing to the nines, let me know so that I can pull out and forget any thoughts of a really well integrated ecosystem of gaming.

BTW: If you see the OMGPOP/Draw Something team, tell them to get the fuck off of their asses (if they're still around) and do something about long-tail gamification model if they want to do something about user retention.

That's all, k thx bye drops mic."
The attention could have been due to racial profiling, but that would require the cop to have seen the driver in the dark at 60mph - still requiring deliberate effort in the first place. The cop could have just been passing us, which gets him closer but requires assessment from the rear to notice the in-progress DWB. But also the way he came up really didn't read as a dwell-and-pass. What are other alternate explanations?

Furthermore it's not really a matter of IF cop cars have automated license plate scanners, it's a matter of WHEN. And then if the law allows a presumption that the owner is driving, which is perhaps the only thing saving you from even more tickets in IL. :)
Secondary? You are not getting enough sex.
There's the RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6352
OrientDB 1.2 supports record level security
Starting from release 1.2 OrientDB the NoSQL document-graph dbms supports the "Record Level Security". Creating partitioned databases it's straightforward: http://nuvolabase.blogspot.it/2012/10/orientdb-and-partitioned-graphs.html

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I retrieved my iPad phone number as per the other comment and logged into the website. Their site says my info is being shared and when I try to switch this it says the settings can not be saved. Calling the 800 number says I am already opted out.

I tried speaking with a CS agent who had no idea what privacy settings I was talking about and then said it does not apply to pre-pay customers. I think she was just trying to get me off the line.

So I'm not sure if this applies to iPad customers or if it is possible to opt out.
Only, he could see the 200x200x square sample, and tell that it was just common sand, before picking it as representative of the sand for analysis.
This is why I both love and hate reading hacker news / stack exchange. On one hand this is one of the most amazing posts I've seen and made me want to learn Mathematica and image analysis, but on the other hand, it made me want to learn Mathematica an image analysis.
(which has no real connection to my day job or side projects)
It's a very good answer, and it worked very well in this case, but it's nothing revolutionary. Background modelling with a single Gaussian is a pretty standard computer vision technique, and he's essentially finding anomalies by backprojecting the model[1]. This is great for one image when you can grab a sand patch, but you'll need to recalculate the model if/when the lighting changes.

If you're interested, more advanced techniques will look at Gaussian Mixture Models, which essentially can model the background (i.e. the sand) as the sum of several Gaussians (thereby permitting multiple distributions, e.g. sand in light vs. sand in shade); for example, GrabCut[2] uses GMMs to model foreground and background distributions for background segmentation. This still won't work for changing lighting, for that you need something more advanced which changes the model over time.

[1] E.g. backprojecting a histogram in opencv: http://docs.opencv.org/modules/imgproc/doc/histograms.html#c...

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/vi...

EDIT: I realised that I sound very negative in this reply, which was not my intention. The technique used is great for the problem they were trying to solve, and I'm glad to see people sharing these sorts of answers on the internet for free.
Another lesson from Fortran is to include arrays as a native type in your language. Intel continues to push their Fortran compiler whenever you shop for their numeric C libraries with some convincing benchmarks. https://speakerdeck.com/u/multicoreworld/p/james-reinders-in...
Startup SeaMicro has a server using 512 Atom CPUs (2010)
There's now the backports service, http://backports.debian.org/ where you can get newer versions of packages recompiled for stable.
That may might not be true. Assuming nothing travels faster than the speed of light. Next assume your calculating all information in some unit of space. Now for small increases in time you can ignore everything further than that time * speed of light. Now, repeat that process for each point in space for 1 tick. Then start over.

Think of it like simulating a really large map of 'game of life', you can chunk them into separate threads and only pass information about the overlap after each calculation.
Since when are advertisements based on facts and data. It is a clever marketing move on the part of Samsung to insinuate that the iPhone is for old people, but is the best tactic of the Apple community to respond with boring facts and data about the user base?

This tends to go against the emotional marketing which Apple has been so good at using in the past.

I suspected that as Apple products grew in popularity, the brand would have difficulty maintaining their cool-factor. It is difficult to be the coolest and the most popular, though they have done an admirable job so far.

The challenge is that as the die-hards rely on quoting user stats, stock prices and other non-emotive data which proves to them that their choice of brand is the 'best', they will fail to engage the true tastemakers who care more about being unique and a leader than being one of the herd.
A mod named "rm -rf" lock-protected the thread. That's a terrible username. Can you imagine thinking you're logging into your account but the focus is accidentally on a command line window?
The Top of Coprates Chasma (Valles Marineris)
At least this letter gives some insight into why there's a highly paid security team.
Bossies 2012 : Best of Open Source Awards
Do you mind providing a link to the TED talk in question? Been thinking about that kind of future lately, and was wondering what other people (who've probably thought about it for longer) have to say about such future.
Not exactly the way it would work, basically the way things are valued you can't necessarily get that much money for them. In the ideal world there would be a business there too.

Now all of this is moot if Zynga is making enough money to pay the bills, doesn't matter what their stock price is if they don't have to sell stock to raise money. So the thing to look at is when their obligations exceed their assets, that is when they are 'upside down' in the lingo. Very hard to recover from that because you can't even borrow money temporarily when that happens, you have to save money, then use the money you saved to do the thing you wanted to do, rinse and repeat and that removes your ability to react quickly.
Lots of Zynga employees ended up there due to acquisitions. It's not their fault if their employer got bought and their equity (if any) at the old company became Zynga equity...
I wish Ubuntu/Canonical would give you the option to donate somewhere else on their site besides via the download page. I set aside ~50$ per month to donate to open source projects. Until now I have not donated to ubuntu since they dont sport a regular donations page
Totally reasonable thing to trade at if investors believe the company is destroying value instead of creating it.
A List of High Quality iOS Programming Tutorials
They probably mean the island most seen in dreams by the inhabitants of that station.
Kickstarter Crosses The Pond With UK-Based Projects
For various reasons, iOS users are empirically more willing to pay for apps and services. There are more Android users than iOS users, but iOS apps still generate the lion's share of mobile revenue.

Some sources for this (based on a quick Google search, one could probably find better or more conclusive sources with a little legwork):

http://www.imore.com/ios-gamers-spend-times-android-players

http://gigaom.com/apple/ios-users-buy-more-apps-and-pay-more...

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/new_report_shows_ios_...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/31/2916556/in-app-purchases-i...

http://functionalaesthetics.eu/why-apps-are-on-ios-first-and...
I'd say that both are generating value.

The people who buy building and rent out all the rooms or Airbnb provide a liquidity the market needs - they are doing something "of value"

If they do that for profit, odds are they are making money and the next best use of these buildings would bring less money.
Object Oriented Programming: Too Much Abstraction (For Me)
I think bcache is supposed to be much faster than dm-cache. http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/
Online freelancers remake outsourcing industry
At Rental Car Upstart, You’ll Take a Silver Audi, or Walk
Technology in the Classroom
Are there any other colocation providers where we can do something similar, but not just with a RPi, i.e., send them a small form factor, low-power computer and a USB stick imaged with (or containing an image file of) an OS that runs well under Xen that we know very well?
Article does not mention debt- Does Zynga have any? If so, it explains some of this.
What makes you think he doesn't already have a job? He's going by a handle because participation in the contest would get him fired from his job.
The problem that the "Titans in Eve" comment is playing at is a situation in which a few extraordinarily invested players are ruining the game for everybody else, by making use of player options that were basically not balanced against the rest of the game because the devs figured that they would never be attained in non-trivial numbers.

If a game ends up incentivizing a style of play that the vast majority of players find unfun to the detriment of a style of play favoured by the vast majority of players, that's a problem.
yeah, sorry, behind the sarcasm that was my point.
This made me want to find the donate button on Slackware's page.
Awesome. Let them collapse, and may a hundred new and better companies bloom in the exodus.
(still gone unanswered)

I hope you are not actually surprised. You've read the email you wrote, right? I know I wouldn't have bothered to answer an email like that.
No, the society in the book did that, I was giving you the context of the quote.

Also, I am not sure that a positive result in that experiment would necessarily prove the hypothesis. The trouble is that if you think you have evidence for the universe being a simulation, you have actually found evidence for any number of things from god to solipsism, depending on what hat you are wearing, but you haven't actually got anywhere and unless you have really exhausted all possible other explanations for what you have measured, then I don't think it is a particularly rational position to take, although it is admittedly quite fun.

Now it could be that we are in a simulation, but if we are, how do you know that anything you detect wasn't put there on purpose to trick you into thinking that you are in a different kind of simulation from the one you are actually in, as a honeypot to fool would be hackers of the simulation? And suddenly we are back in comedy-god land.
If that is the case, you could show a side by side comparison of the prices involved with alternatives, like Deck Foundry.
true, this is great work done by the community...in other words the developer community specially at Stack.... website is really smart and good!
Reminds me of when I had to work with Java. Every statement, no matter how simple, had to be contained in a class. Can totally relate to the "buzz-kill" statement. That's certainly what it felt like.
How SpaceX Will Keep The Space Station In Business
"buy APPL and expect AAPL to double in 1 year."

Big error. You can predict a stock doubling in value a year in advance?

Your numbers are less shocking when you plug in more reasonable expectations, say 6% market index instead of 200% home run.
"Lowest common denominator"? Really?

After listening to this kind of argument from World of Warcraft players for ages, I have a serious problem with equating time investment with being more deserving of having fun. It's about taking pride in the ability to put up with arbitrary timesinks that serve the game in no way but to prolong it, and that rhetoric is ultimately justifying game design that is designed to waste the player's time as much as they will put up with.

Somehow Blizzard managed to brainwash people into rationalizing their sunk time, and now they really believe that having to spend hours not having fun before you can have fun is necessary to make a game rewarding, because there's no other element of the game that is rewarding to them anymore.
FYI, http://redistogo.com offers a free plan. 5mb, 1 database. Perfect for a side project.
Or for a more recent example, 38 Studios.

MMOs are a notoriously hard genre, and while I wish him luck, it doesn't inspire optimism.
GPUs are primarily designed to be good for graphics, which implies completely different internal architecture. While GPUs have some graphics-oriented functional units the main factor is that all these cores have to access pretty large chunk of shared memory (textures, frame buffer...) and do that uniformly fast (and also support some weird addressing modes and access patterns). I suspect, that large part of die area of modern GPU is interconnect and that there really are few very wide cores (something like VLIW+SIMD+ possibly UltraSparcIV style hyperthreading, but that can be faked by compiler given sufficiently large register set) that are made to look like large amount of simple cores by magic in compiler (which seems consistent with CUDA programming model).

So: you can get large amounts of performance with simple architecture, but only for some problems, with graphics not being in set of these problems.
Claiming that we're in a simulation because our universe is discrete is wrong on 2 levels.

1. The discreteness of our universe doesn't say anything about whether we're in a simulation or not. What if the "higher level" universe has indiscrete computers? If our universe is discrete, it can be simulated on a Von Neumann model computer - that's all we can say.

2. And more importatnly: saying that we're in a simulation actually doesn't mean anything. It is 0 bits of information. Adding this statement to our model of the world is like adding comments to source code or defining a function that is not used. It's like saying that gravity is caused by tiny invisible dwarfs pushing elementary particles.
Configuring a usable Android emulator
This reminds me of the riddle Varys poses Tyrion in "Game of Thrones": Three great men sit in a room, a king, a priest and the rich man. Between them stands a common sellsword. Each great man bids the sellsword kill the other two. Who lives? Who dies?

Replace sellsword with employee. All these employees got screwed, yet like the sellsword they should have had the power to get a better deal.
My thoughts exactly.

It's a good headline, buut won't the market correct this naturally to account for the fact it's worth "less" than it's assets or is Zynga going to just keep dropping?
This(manymo) doesn't seem primarily meant to be used for web development, but rather Android native application development. Opera's emulator is designed to emulate a mobile browser, nothing more.
I think the fact that you even wrote this post and are questioning staying at this "startup" means it's time for you to move on. Look at what is important to you and go follow that.
1) Actually, removing as much risk as possible, limiting risk to a small subset of wealth, at the expense of latency in some cases, is a perfect solution here (I'm not charging $1k/yr yet...). Coinbase presumably has a certain amount of risk they'll cover internally, and some level they can't or won't cover, so making sure the worst case breach doesn't exceed their risk tolerance is necessary and brilliant.

Any insurer would require a solution like this, on top of any other audit and control measures. The only weakness with the system as it stands now is documentation (which the blog post accomplishes, to some extent) -- the next step is to develop legal and technical measures (possibly using threshold cryptography, HSMs, etc., as well as multiple contracted parties like law firms, escrow agents, etc.) to enforce the fundamental principle of reducing value at risk to a reasonable level.

2) Please give me an example of ANYTHING the military, banking, or smart grids has solved "elegantly", especially in security. Elegance is the opposite of how those industries work -- they solve things with brute force.

3) This solution is elegant in that it's a simple hack and accomplishes the goals using the resources available.

It's not a general solution to the computer security problem, but took advantage of a compromise (latency) they could make.

CAs, for a long time, actually did a lot of work using laptops stored in bank vaults, rather than HSMs, since there was no good way to run all the code they needed in-HSM, or they needed to use kinds of keys not supported in HSM. Later, they bought HSMs for the keys themselves (mainly to do multi-party access control), and kept the laptop too.
DAY 10(REALITY CHECK)
Why would you need submodule support with vundle? With vundle you don't even need to have your .vim directory as a part of the 'dotFiles' repository - it just accepts a list of plugin (github/vimscript/whatever) urls that you want to install.
That's not entirely true. Employees still have a choice. Specifically, I remember reading this article: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...
and thinking to myself, "at least someone isn't just in it for a quick buck."
Solaris has had this for years now with the L2ARC. I'm glad it is finally coming to Linux. Now when is Linux going to get a better page eviction algorithm, like ARC?
Start-Up Chile: Attracting Bootstrappers from Harvard, MIT, Oxford,
So I guess not really worth upgrading from the Kindle Keyboard with a lit cover. Too bad, the cover makes it quite heavy, but I also really like page turning buttons for lazy reading.
Don't tell the driver where the customers are.
It's on our roadmap. :)
The Library Directory is the first open public sector IT-project in Finland
When we got first light on LROC, pretty much everyone on our team looked over images like crazy. The PI was a madman in that regard. I imagine that some person spotted this.
Does the touch screen require flesh or equivalent, or will it work through cloth and fabric?

One of the nicest things about my first generation Kindle, and it's nice big page turning buttons on the sides, is that I can read in bed on a cold night, snug under my blanket, grasping the Kindle through the blanket.

To turn the page, I simply have to bump the side with the hand that is not holding it. This can be done without taking either hand out from under the blanket. In fact, I can usually just bump it on my stomach or chest.

If I have to actually extrude some fleshy appendage out from under my blanket to turn pages, I will consider that a step backwards.
The next time some alien life form comes to earth and wants to destroy us for all the pain and suffering we are causing each other, lets just point it at this link.

It is by far the best example of "Why the human race deserves to exist" that I've seen this week.

Edit: this guy is responsible for this as well:
http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/5676/how-to-p...

Awesome stuff.
Ask YC: What does YC S'11 startup Automatic do?
Sprint Said to Hold Off on MetroPCS Counterbid for Now
I still feel the canonical answer to "what should my default data management policy in write-some-read-a-ton situations" is to, at write time:

1) store an appropriate write-whole/data-mining-friendly format
2) ASAP, for each major view, write out a Redis-style O(1)-to-read data structure
3) think carefully about backup and replay strategies

You trade a slightly stale read of the very hottest data for much improved performance on everything else, and more importantly, much simplified view code.

The best reference I have found for this pattern, and it isn't great (too big-SQL-centric), is "command-query-responsibility segregation":

http://www.udidahan.com/2009/12/09/clarified-cqrs/
This reads like most of the e-mail I get, and I don't even run a publicly traded company!
"the Kindle still lacks hyphenation but yet insists upon full-justified text. Full justification without hyphenation inevitably results in unsightly gaps between words on a few lines each page."

On my Kindle, at least, words seem to be separated at most 1 em, and any more and they go 'ragged right' instead of hyphenating — which I actually found far more pleasant than even Liang's LaTeX hyphenation algorithm in terms of readability.
Same here.. I hated having to write boilerplate code. Got really old after a while.. not to mention having to fix someone else's code.
Thoughts on the Occasion of Christening a Computer
Has anyone here compared it IRL with the GlowLight Nook? Thoughts?
Chess in New York
Thank you, this is far more useful than the other confusingly titled article about android emulators
In Glittering return, Paglia lets loose
Jeff posted a question in the Programmers Symposium of the Ars Technica forum asking how the members there felt about forum software.

Personally, I think the ars forum works perfectly. I can't stand newsgroups, for instance...i'd be in heaven if everything were vbulletin.

But maybe Jeff has something neat up his sleave!
I expect investors are expecting lawsuits or other losses in the near term that could easily reduce their assets.
Say what you want but I really appreciate the fast turnaround from Google on this. Its excellent that they do this sort of thing, and that they have the mechanism to push the patches quickly.
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